Department of Plant Biotechnology


Main laboratories

  • Plant tissue culture Lab
  • Media preparation Lab
  • Plant cytogenetic Lab
  • Secondary metabolites extraction Lab
  • Plant molecular Lab
  • High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) Lab
  • Detection of plant Secondary metabolites Lab
  • Biological activity assay Lab
  • Incubator room for plant tissue culture 

Objectives

  • Utilizing tissue culture technology and other techniques to produce plants that are tolerant of environmental conditions such as salinity and drought with desirable agricultural specifications
  • Micro-vegetative propagation in vivo for economically important plants
  • Production and purification of active substances from some medicinal plants for use in the pharmaceutical and food industries
  • Using magnetized water to improve agricultural plant and animal production
  • The use of tissue culture technology in the development of high productivity of medicinal plants
  • Establishing agricultural studies for the production of haploid plants for use in breeding and improvement processes
  • Work on the environmental accounting of living and non-living genes transfer

Main Lab. Apparatuses & devices

  • High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
  • Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
  • Real-time polymerase chain reaction (rt-PCR)
  • Spectrophotometer
  • Flame photometer
  • Autoclave
  • Fume hood
  • Laminar air flow cabinet
  • Immunosorbent Assay Enzyme-Linked
  • Rotary evaporator
  • Light and florescent Microscopes
  • Gel documentation system
  • Thermo mixer
  • Shaking incubator
  •  Deep freeze
  • Plant growth chamber